The Newsletter of Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination 1995 All Rights Reserved SS.00 CTKA is a political action group ?g-03c lobbying for full disclosure of files Vol. 2, No. 5 July 22, 1995 relating to the Kennedy assassination

ARRB Meets First Hurdles On July 21st the National Archives re- -a: leased the first set of ARRB approved GOP Effort to Defund the ABRB documents. These were 16 CIA docu- ,,,,.." ments that the agency did not choose to The story broke suddenly in The Wall nal" story noted above, the reference to • contest. As Peter Dale Scott has written, Street Journal of June 23, 1995. The Re- eliminating the Review Board appeared. "One of the documents. . .strengthens the publicans in the House.were looking for Ironically a quote from Armey in the impression that David Phillips. . .was di- funds to cut from the federal.govern- story read that, "I hope that we can set rectly involved before the assassination in ment's operating budget. The first move straight a perception of wrongdoing." the handling and reporting of Oswald's was to pass a bill cutting 5155,000,000 How Congress could do this by saving a t visit to Mexico City." Scott found that the and eliminating 2,700 jobs from opera- whopping two million (approximate temporary duty officer who picked up a tions of the House and legislative agen- ARRB budget) from a one and a half special pouch related to the Mexico City cies such as the General Accounting trillion dollar budget escapes us. Pre- episode was "Michael C. Choaden", a Office. Then Speaker Newt Gingrich and cisely the opposite effect would occur. name the Review Board understands, Majority Leader Dick Armey apparently But this statement and this effort from the CIA, to be a pseudonym for had their legislative aides go through shows us even more how out of touch Phillips. the White House budget and target . our Washington representatives are. agencies they felt were unnecessary and When this story got out and circu- FBI and CIA Balk expendable. In the sixteenth and next to lated to the members of the ARRB and After the rather smooth going on the last paragraph of the "Walt Street Jour- continued on page 7 first release, both the FBI and CIA began to balk at what came next. From CTKA been More overt about the scheduled re- tion Records Review Board to the Federal sources in Washington, the ARRB itself, lease of 15 documents. They have ap- Bureau of Investigation's August 8, 1995 and the AP newswire, PROBE will now pealed the release of 9 of these to Appeal of Formal Determinations under outline the struggle going on in the capi- President Clinton. According to the ARRB, The President John F. Kennedy Assassina- tol. the FBI contested files relate to Oswald's tion Records Collection Act of 1992. When the ARRB moves to release a stay in the Soviet Union, the Communist "There are two principal points made batch of documents from an agency's Party USA, and Ruby's shooting of Os- in our Reply. First, the Federal Bureau of files, that agency has the privilege to re- wald. Investigation has failed to provide the quest a private conference with the Board "clear and convincing evidence" required to try to convince them of other options Sources and Methods, by the JFK Act; and second, much of the other than full disclosure e.g. postpone- yeah yeah yeah... information that the Bureau now wishes ment or non-release. A worst case post- continued on page 7 ponement can last well into the next The objections seem to be on the usual ceneury. Our sources tell us that the grounds of the sensitivity of "methods original release pattern planned by the and sources" and damage to our intelli- In This Issue ... ARRB has been altered, The pattern origi- gence relationships with foreign coun- nally held that another batch of solely tries, i.e. intelligence sources and agents Connick Vs. Garrison. Round Three 3 CIA documents from Oswald's CIA HQ inside foreign countries. Since the Board Raymond vs. Connick: Round One 4 file were to be released next. Then a com- has seen the documents and are well The Transcript from Harry's Hell 5 bination of 15 FBI and 2 CIA documents aware of the standard line on "national CTKA's Response to New York Times .6 concerning Oswald's trip to Mexico City security" one can't help but wonder how ARRB In New Orleans: were to be third. The Board had originally that antique warning could be sounded A Participant's View 8 agreed on this sequence. The CIA then re- three decades later and with the Cold War Ted Charach Press Conference; quested another audience with the Board finished. Thane Eugene Cesar's Gun Found 9 to request postponement on the CIA HQ Tribute to the Women Researchers 10 release. This audience was granted. Dur- The Board's Gunrunner Ruby and the CIA 13 ing this delay, the third release went Recommendation Canning to Blakey 16 FBI Fibbed about Testing Carcano .. 17 ahead and will be uncontested on the We quote from Mr. Marwell's letter to Notebook CIA's part. After their conference with the President Clinton dated August 11th: 18 VJecht Responds to Boswell: CIA, our information is that the Board is "Dear Mr. President: 1995 to 1969 19 now reconsidering their original intent to "I have the honor of submitting to The CTKA Catalog 20 release the documents in full. The FBI has you the enclosed Reply of the Assassina- CTKA From the Chairman's Desk: CITIZENS FOR TRUTH As many have predicted, earliest and most presciently John Newman, the ARRB Is now meeting its first serious obstructions by the most consistent enemies of ABOUT THE full disclosure: our old friends with long institutional memories, the CIA and FBI. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION The attempt to defund has been turned back due to some quick politicking by Tlinheirn, Marwell, and COPA. But now the second attack is upon us, After clear- Chairman ing the first release of files, the ARRB is now meeting resistance in its newest re- Jim DiEugenio quests for full disclosure. We urge every reader to either phone or fax the ARRB and urge them not to back down in their pursuit of the newest file requests, in Executive Board full and with no redactions. The numbers to call are: Phone, 202-724-0088: Fax, David Manning, Chuck 11,farler, 202-724-0457. We also urge readers to write CIA Director John Deutch and FBI Di- Dennis Effie rector Louis Freth and alert them that the public will not put up with any more stonewalling and scare tactics. The time for subverting the will of the American people in its pursuit of openness and honesty has long gone. We at PROBE honestly Board of Directors feel that no other issue ranks as high as restoring the public's faith in its government Dr. Gary Aguilar and that if the ARRB is subverted now, after it has received a mandate from the public, Doug Carlson the Congress, and the chief executive, it would truly be calamitous. Kathleen Cunningham The ARRB is also meeting resistance from New Orleans DA Harry Connick and Gaeton Fonzi his allies Hugh Aynesworth, Gerald Posner and the New York Times. We find it Edwin Lopez Soto odd that a medium sized city's rather undistinguished DA would merit attention Dr David Mantik by the big media centers of Washington and New York. We explain why we think Jim Marrs there is more here than meets the eye and we offer the full transcript of the local WDSU report that started the uproar. Also, Dave Manning offers coverage of the Wayne Smith RFK news conference by -ad Charach who now appears to have found the "second William Turner gun" of Thane Eugene Cesar. We update our readers on the progress of Robert Dr. Cyril Wecht Groden's lawsuit against Random House and Posner. Roger Feinman is not giving Jack White up. In a special section we honor some of the women in the community who have not received the accolades and recognition they deserve. We hope this begins to re- PROBE STAFF verse that trend. People like Milicent, Anna Marie, Kathleen, Carol, our own Lisa Pease—and more—have certainly made a mark and continued—in some ways, Co-Editors furthered—the pioneering work of the late, great Sylvia Meagher. Finally, and speaking of pioneers, Cyril Wecht ties everything together with his Jim DiEugenio Lisa Pease response to Dr. Boswell's recently declassified letter to the top brass in the Navy in anticipation of exposure of the world's worst autopsy at the Shaw trial. In this Layout response, he speaks for all of us by reminding Boswell of who he is, and us of Lisa Pease who we are and what this case is really all about. Amen.

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PROBE Volume 2 Subscriptions: What is CTKA? s30 for Issues 1-6 Citizens for Tkuth about the Kennedy Assassination was organized as a result of the Back Issues Volume 1: April 1993 Chicago Midwest Symposium on Assassinations. At the end of that confer- for 12 issues Domestic ence, it was generally decided that the time had come to create a political action i35 & S30 respectively Foreign group, which would urge the executive branch of our government to re-open the unsolved assassinations of the I960s—i.e., the murders of President John F. Kennedy, Send Check or Money Order to: Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King. CTKA endeavors to ensure that the Review Board fulfill its mandate to release all the remaining records pertaining CTKA to the JFK assassination; to amend the current Freedom of Information Act to render Citizens for Truth about the future covert actions more difficult to hide; and to urge the American people to Kennedy Assassination discover the truth about their history. Fla Box 5185 If you are not already a member of CTKA, please consider supporting our efforts Sherman Oaks, CA 91413 with a subscription to PROBE or a donation to help cover the hidden costs of running Tel: (310) 558-1796 a not-for-profit organization. Thanks to all of you who are already CTKA supporters. Let's continue to work together to get the truth out about our collective past.

PRO3E July 22, 1995 Connick vs. Garrison: Round Three reveal that he himself had participated in— Harry Connick ran against Jim Garrison ample, in a televised debate during the '69 ordered actually—the destruction of valu- twice, once in 1969 and again in 1973. He race Connick stated that although he was lost the first time "inclined to say there is no merit to them" able records. According to an affidavit and then, due to he would have to evaluate each of the executed by a former Connick staffer the the bad publicity charges involved in the case before dismiss- DA decided to destroy the records of the of Garrison's two ing them. Apparently, the evaluation did grand jury testimony during the Shaw in- frame-up trials, not take long since, to use one example, the vestigation. When the staffer questioned he defeated him in case against Kerry Thornley was dismissed this decision on the basis of historical sig- 1973. Connick five months after he took office. nificance, Connick said, "Burn this ," took office April Under Connick's watch there has been sonofabitch and burn it today 1, 1974. He has massive urban flight out of New Orleans into Fortunately for history, the staffer did been the DA ever the suburbs like Gretna, Covington, and not. He kept them in his garage in the in- since. As back- Metairie. The New Orleans police force has de- tervening years and when Connick's accu- ground to the teriorated to the point where stories about sation of "theft" was broadcast, he felt that rather curious murder and cover-up run in big city news- the DA was setting him up to take the fall events of the Last papers. In fact, the August 12th issue of on the missing grand jury testimony. He two months, it is important to note who the Los Angeles Times ran an article in which called local television reporter Richard some of Connick's backers were in the a chief suspect in a serial murder case there Angelico and gave him the testimony of the 1973 race with Garrison and to mention at is a policeman. New Orleans has become 40 witnesses. He swore out the affidavit on least one strange event that occurred dur- the city with the highest murder per capita condition Angelico send them to the ARRB. ing the '69 race. ratio in the U.S. Angelico did, but not before getting an in- In the '1969 race, on the eve of the elec- terview with Connick in which, in another tion, a poll put out of New Orleans on Oc- The Missing Files typical Connick performance, Connick tober 15th placed Garrison ahead So on June 28th, when Connick stepped smugly stuck his foot in his mouth (the 49%-18%. Three weeks later, very close to into the.witness chair to testify before the entire report is in thc accompanying tran- election eve, a St. Louis company called ARRB at the old U.S. Mint at 400 Espla- script). It got worse when, the day after DeWitt announced the results of another nade, most observers familiar with him Connick denied he destroyed records, an- poll. This one put Connick ahead 49%-28%. and his career did not expect much in the other former staffer, Ralph Whalen, stated Garrison won in a landslide. The poll was way of candor or forthrightness. Even be- in the local papers that he remembered quite questionable, yet WDSU newscaster fore the hearing, Connick tipped his hand Connick "destroying a bunch of Garrison Terry Fletcher did a much publicized seg- by cozying up to Gerald Posner, mysteri- stuff.. .some things that related directly to ment trumpeting its results. The day after ously in town for a secret and "unrelated" the Shaw case". the election even the Tunes-Picayune, no project. No dummy, Connick comple- friend of Garrison's, wondered if the poll was mented the Board on its effort to secure Subpoenas Galore a hoax intended to help Connick. win. records. He said he had decided to turn over Suffice it to say, after stating on camera In 1973, Connick outspent Garrison by what he had left to them because "what that he did not remember ordering the de- a wide margin, as had been the case in '69. you are doing is important and we think struction of the records, Connick had been In the second race, the local alternative pa- that what we can hopefully add. . . will cornered. He now told the press that he had pers like Gambit and The Courier badgered clarify some of the clouded areas of the discussed the matter recently with top as- Connick to release the list of contributors past and make sense out of what hap- sistants and "Neither has any recollection to his campaign. After weeks of pressure, pened." Under questioning from the Board of any orders to burn anything." This was Connick finally released a partial list. The he implied that Garrison and his staff had a curious statement for him to say because contributors included the major backers of "rifled" the investigative files since much on the next day, July 13th, he ordered his the Superdome project, including his was missing from them when he took of former investigator Gary Raymond—the brother William (Superdome secretary). In He qualified that to Kermit Hall by staffer who had contacted Angelico—before other words all the big banking interests in saying "Our criminal code calls that theft." the grand jury. Clearly, Connick had been the city. TWo other contributors were Clay He took a parting shot at Garrison by say- embarrassed in front of his electorate and Shaw and Carlos Bringuier. iWo others ing that when he took over the office "it then he had been disingenuous with them. were Leonard and Bill Gurvich, who also was a pretty sorry state of affairs", "things How else can one explain the apparent ended up helping Shaw's defense. Both were run in a very slipshod manner", and paradox of the DA "not remembering" any newspapers at that time, owned by Ashton "It was in bad shape". orders for destruction, yet issuing a specific Phelps, did much to help Connick. Connick It was a typical Connick performance: subpoena for a specific name—Gary won a close race. slick, sanctimonious, less than candid, Raymond—to appear before the grand jury mean-spirited and cheap toward his prede- to testify on such matters. Raymond's Connick Drops the Ball cessor. But Connick made one mistake. By name had not appeared in either the broad- As Garrison suspected, once he was in calling the disposal of records theft, he sent cast or any of the papers yet. On the same office, Connick did nothing to preserve or shock waves through some members of his day, he also issued a subpoena for Angelico pursue the Kennedy investigation. For ex- former staff. Predictably, Connick did not continued on page 4 PRO3E July 22, 1995 Connick vs. Garrison Shaw case should have been "retained and Raymond also revealed that Connick had continued from page 3 preserved in some way", now reversed kept a copy of the testimony for himself. himself He said he did destroy records, to appear before the grand jury. Later he The story then took another twist. With but none that could have been useful to was to subpoena the ARRB itself. He re- the controversy swirling to a boiling point historians. He then defended his order to ferred to Raymond as "the thief" in the in New Orleans, with the local papers and case and Angelico as "the recipient of sto- destroy the grand jury testimony by say- TV carrying daily stories, with the public len property." During a press conference ing, "What's my responsibility, to put waiting for the results of the grand jury Connick, after saying in the Angelico seg- them in an iron box and adore them?" testimony and subpoenas, with T-shirts be- ment that everything involved in the The subpoena to Angelico was served on ing printed with Connick's picture above WDSU's corporate counsel so it was not the quote 'What's the point Harry?", the Raymond vs. Connick: valid: specific personal subpoenas have to DA left town. He went to New York. All Round One be served on the person named. The sub- further announcements were left to his of- poena to the ARRB, according to ARRB at- fice. But Connick did do one thing before he This Is not the first time that Gary torneys and the Justice Depai Lnient, is not left. He sent out feelers to Raymond. He Raymond has crossed swords with his former valid. Raymond did show up before the wanted to know what he wanted in return boss, Harry Connlck. When Connick came Into grand jury. Even though there were nine for a deal. Connick's position in New Or- office In 1974, Raymond was an Investigator murder cases that week, Connick still at- leans was weak. on his staff By the time he left the department tempted to muster enough grand jurors to Before the controversy erupted, Connick In the mid 1980's, he was his chief Investiga- hear Raymond. Connick could not get a had agreed to send up the only investiga- tor. He then became a private investigator. quorum and Raymond was asked to come tive file left from the Shaw case to the Since one of Raymond's specialties was back the next week, July 20th. His session ARRB. This was a five drawer file cabinet pedophile cases, Connick asked him to check on that date was then canceled. As of to- chockfull of extremely interesting, unique out a case he had of a local priest who was day, the only person to have gone before materials. In fact the day he testified, he sodomizing children and young adults. Gary the grand jury was Connick's first assis- called the ARRB and said he was arranging checked out the materials, tapes and affidavits tant. When she outlined what had hap- to have it sent up. This was in keeping and recommended to the DA that he prosecute pened, the members asked, "Well, what's with an interview he had given to re- the case. Gary waited and waited. Nothing hap- the charge?" Her response reportedly was, searcher James DiEugenio in August of pened_ "We aren't sure." The grand jury asked 1994. At that time he said that he would Meanwhile, Gary encountered one of the what she was doing there then, since they only give these files to an official govern- kids be had seen on the pornographic tapes, had important matters to attend to. ment body. In fact the HSCA had indexed which the priest had been peddling Raymond At this point and due to reports out of these files but, for some reason, had not re- asked the boy if he wanted to talk for the New Orleans that Connick was going to quested them. record_ Re said that the priest had threatened destroy other remaining records of the the life if he did. Raymond then drew up a three In the first week of August, Reuters case, Jim Lesar wrote a long FOIA request ran a, story based on an interview with page memo outlining the case and he for- to Connick. It read in part, "I am making author Gerald Posner. The story was warded It to Conrail_ Connlnk's assistant then this request to prevent you from carry- picked up by the told Gary that the DA was very angry about the Washington Post and the ing out your threat to destroy records New York press. This previewed and an- memo, When Raymond asked why, the reply relevant to an important chapter in Ameri- was that It left a paper trail. Connick had cut a nounced an upcoming article to be writ- can history." And further on, "Whatever ten by Posner for the deal with the archbishop In September of 1989 New York Times records you or your office may possess Magazine Later, Raymond saw Connick at a St. Patrick's in the Sunday August 6th is- pertaining to Garrison's investigation into sue. That piece was written at about the Day parade. He asked the DA when the priest President Kennedy's murder are of intense level of Posner's book, i.e. recycled, bla- was going to be prosecuted. Connick put his interest to students and scholars of the as- finger in his ohest and said, He won't. Not as tant disinformation. (See accompanying sassination." CTKA press release.) long as I am the DA. And you can't do a thing Another strange thing then occurred. about It." Gary then went to Richard Angelico Was Connick plotting with Posner dur- Hugh Aynesworth, longtime FBI asset on ing the ARRB and he did a continuing five day series on what hearing? Did he or WDSU the Kennedy assassination, wrote a front (strong allies of Walter Sheridan during the became the famous Father Dino Clnel child page article based on the grand jury testi- abuse case, In which the priest was making Shaw prosecution) send the transcripts to mony for the July 16th Washington Times . child pornography films In the rectory of St. Aynesworth? Did Connick talk with the al- Predictably, it focused on the testimony of RIta's Church. One of the series highlights was ways pro-Warren Commission staff of the Bill Gurvich, a plant inside Garrison's of- The New York Angellco'a Interview with Connick. He asked Times while he was in New fice, without , of course, mentioning that York? Did they then arrange a damage con- the DA If he had made a deal with the diocese fact. At first, most felt that WDSU had sent trol piece with the always accommodating not to prosecute. He said he had because It the testimony to Aynesworth since would have been too difficult to track down and Posner. It is curious, but predictable, that Angelico had closed his report by saying LD all the kids. Angelico had to remind Posner's piece mentions not one word that he would send the transcripts to an Connick that the DA had gone before about Connick being under attack locally. the legis- "assassination expert" in Washington for lature in 1985 and had the law changed so that As in 1967, the people in New Orleans got review. But in an interview with PROBE mere possession of the material was a contra- a much better view of things than did the Angelico stated, "Why do think it was me. band charge. Connick had smugly stuck his American public. Was this the aim? Should Connick and Aynesworth have been friends foot In his mouth + we ask Connick? for a long time." 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The Transcript from Harry's Hell Special Thanks to Steve Tyler for providing CTRA with the video of this news segment. Richard: WDS17 Local Evening News For years the records of that investigation Connick, elected District Attorney, Chief 7/11/93 lay in storage at the DA's office gathering Law Enforcement Officer of Orleans Parish, personally ordered those records destroyed . Lead In dust. Now a federal commission, the Assas- sination Records and Review Board wants I know, and do hereby swear this to be the There have been many mysteries surround- those records and two weeks ago called on truth because I was one of two or three in- ing the murder of President John F. current district attorney Harry Connick to dividuals ordered by Harry Connick to de- Kennedy including a mystery right here in produce them. stroy them." New Orleans: What happened to the files of former prosecutor Jim Garrison? Cut to: Cut to: Connick: Film of the Review Board hearing. Angelico in an office with a table in front of him. Copies of the grand jury testimony I think everything connected with that case Richard's Voice-Over: are on top. should have been retained and preserved in Connick told the committee only a small some way. portion of the records remain. Most of Richard: Cut tor them, he said, had been stolen. These are the records the former staffer says that Connick ordered him to destroy: live in-studio anchors Norman Robinson Connick: the original testimony of more than 40 and Susan Roesgen sitting with reporter Ri- There are a lot of folks who were connected witnesses who appeared before Garrison's chard Angelico. with that investigation and prosecution grand jury. Many of them major players in and were in that office you know, from Norman: the investigation The documents include that time of the trial until we took office in You'll recall that the District Attorney testi- the testimony of Perry Raymond Russo, the '74 And 1 think a lot of that material is fied that the files had been stolen. man who placed Shaw with Oswald and probably in their custody. I think those files Ferric. Mark Lane, the original conspiracy Susan: were rifled and I think they took from theorist. Dean Andrews, a New Orleans But for the first time we know what hap- those files things that would be of great in- lawyer, who claimed to have gotten a call pened to at least some of the JR( files be- terest to the American public, and to the cause Richard Angelico found them. world as a matter of fact. asking him to represent Oswald. And even Richard. the testimony of Marina Oswald, Lee Richard's Voice-Over: Harvey Oswald's widow. According to the Malan!: Connick clearly pointed the finger of blame affidavit, Connick's reasons for destroying Well Susan and Norman, the story of the for the missing records at Garrison's office. the records were simple: he needed more missing original grand jury testimony is Had a crime been committed asked the storage space. bizarre to say the least. Harry Connick committee chairman? To which Connick Cut to: says it was stolen. But a former staffer of replied: The affidavit. Connick's says the District Attorney knows Com:tick: better about the missing Kennedy files. .Richard's Voice-Over: Our criminal code calls that theft. Cut to: The former staffer says when he suggested Cut tot A montage segment of the Zapruder film, the records were of historical significance, HSCA Report cover, photos of Oswald in Angelico walking down the street in front Connick told him: "This investigation was handcuffs, films of Garrison and Shaw, of the Court House. a figment of Jim Garrison's overactive booking photos of Ferric and Shaw. Richard: imagination. Burn this son-of-a bitch and Richard's Voice-Over: Those were strong words from the DA But burn it today." The assassination of John Kennedy now a former member of Connick's staff Cut to: spawned dozens of conspiracy theories. But has come forward with equally strong Close-up shots of the bound grand jury the Warren Commission named Gee Harvey words. He says Connick did not tell the testimony. committee the entire truth. Oswald as the lone assassin. Many found Richard's Voice-Over: that hard to believe. Among them New Or- Cut to: But the staffer disobeyed Connick and kept leans District Attorney Jim Garrison. After Montage segment of the two page affidavit the records for over 21 years until turning a highly publicized investigation, he ar- being shown on the screen. them over to me. Last week we asked rested New Orleans businessman Clay Richard's Voice-Over: Connick about his testimony before the As- Shaw, charging that Shaw, Oswald and a In this sworn affidavit the former staff sassination Records and Review Board and local pilot named David Ferric plotted member says, "Recent news articles indicate his contention that many of the records Kennedy's death here in New Orleans. DA Harry Connick has testified before the had been stolen by Garrison's staff. Shaw was acquitted, Garrison's investiga- Assassination Records and Review Board tion discredited. Cut to: that records of Garrison's were "pilfered" Inside of Connick's office. Angelico is sitting Cut to: from the files of the DA's office. Nothing opposite of Connick at his desk. .Angelico in front of Court House. could be further from the truth. Harry continued on page (.› pRoiaz July 22, 1995 Page 6

Harry's Hell continued from pagr 5 CTKA PRESS RELEASE Richard Aug. 6, 1996 The grand jury testimony in the Shaw case should have been kept do you think? In the New York Times Magazine of August 6,1995, author Gerald Posner was allowed to do Connie*: what no other American can do at this moment: pass judgment on a 5 drawer file cabinet of materi- I think everything connected with that case als from the late Jim Garrison's JFK assassination probe. DA Harry Connick has given Posner sole should have been retained and preserved in access to materials about which he said on local television last month: "Everything connected with SOME way. that case [Shaw trial) should have been retained and preserved in some war Later before the As- Richards sassination Record and Review Board hearing he stated that the flies contained, "...things that would be of great interest to the American public and the world, as a matter of fact." In praise of We have a, I found an affidavit from a the mission of the ARRB, namely to obtain and open up all records on the JFK murder, be said: 'I former staff member of yours who says compliment you for attempting to do what I think is a necessary undertaking"; and still later In his that you ordered him to burn the grand testimony, "...we think that what you are doing is important and we think that what we can hope- jury transcripts. fully add to what you're doing will clarify some of the clouded areas of the past and make sense out Cowlick: of what happened." At the time of his testimony-June 28th-Connick was arranging to ship these No, no. {Smiles, giggles nervously.) records to the NationalArchives so the American public could begin the 'clarification of clouded Richard areas' for itself. I'll let you look at it and see what it says. Nearly a month and a half later, the public has yet to see the files. Yet Connick has allowed one select person privileged access. He Is Gerald Posner, author of the 1993 book 'Case Closed" which Contd.:tic argued that the Warren Commission was correct In Its 1964 finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was I don't, I don't, it. . .so what's the point. the lone, deranged assassin of President Kennedy, In a 1994 interview with researcher James Richard: DiEugenio, Connick said that no one could have these flies except an 'official body'. The article Well, he saw you tell the committee that does not explain Connicre apparent reversal on this point. Posner also never explains why and he says you ordered him to burn the Connick Is delaying the National Archives receipt of these materials. grand jury transcripts of the Shaw-Garri- Mr. Posner's article Is relatively brief: 11/2 pages, or 3 magazine columns. In this short piece, son investigation because you simply Posner spends 7 paragraphs dealing with the contents of these new files. Of these, 3 deal with In- needed storage space when you moved into formation not already published In hooka. Yet, the last people able to peruse these files, the House office. Select Committee on Assassinations (a true official body) made a recently declassified index to Conniela these records. The index Itself is 18 pages longl From this skeleton guide much of the material Ig- nored by Posner 1s new and seems to support some of Garrison's charges, specifically about the That, that, that may well be so. . . we, we aasociation of dispose of a lot of records, have disposed of Shaw with Oswald and the attempts some people made to intimidate and bribe his witnesses, which Is why be wished them surveilled. This is left out by Mr. Posner. a lot of records, urn-huh. Finally, Posner leaves out the most Important story of all. The ARRB Is about to request Mahar& the release of CIA HQ files on Oswald to the Archives. The CIA Is resisting. If, as Posner Hmrn. He maintains in the affidavit that, states, the case Is closed and Oswald was the sole, deranged assassin, why would the CIA that he suggested to you- have voluminous files on him, and b.) not want the public to see them fully disclosed 32 years Connioic later. Posner and The Times should save their space for an article on this Issue and Its out- I will, I will accept that as, as valid.. . come done by an unbiased writer whose interpretations can be checked against the record. Openness, not elitist bias, is what the JFK Act was all about. Richard: Huh? Richard's Voice-Over: Minnick: Connick: As a final footnote to this story, we showed I will. He's saying that we should have kept Uh huh. the transcripts to Sal Panzeca, a former it, is this what he's saying? Richard member of Shaw's defense team. His reac- Richard: Do you dispute that? Do you recall that? tion: He's saying that he came to you and said Panseca: maybe we should keep this because this is Cowlick: not John Smith killing John Doe, this is I, I don't recall that, I don't recall that. But We were not able to see the documents at the Garrison's investigation of Shaw. it may if I did do it, so what, its done. time I was working on this case, uh, today have some historical significance. And you Richard: we would be and I think that the Garrison case would never have gone to trial. said the case has been disposed of, the man Yeah. Cut to not guilty, burn the records. Connicic In studio, Angelico sitting at a desk with Connick: We've destroyed a lot of records. the two anchors. Right . Cut to: Richard: Richard: Inside of Sal Panzeca' office. Angelico and These records were provided to us on the Because you needed storage space.. Panzeca sitting at a table with the grand condition that we forward them to the As- jury testimony between them. sassination Records and Review Board. We will do that. We have also provided a copy MO3E July 22, 1995 •

to an assassination expert for his review to GOP Defunct Attempt is supplied and that evidence outweighs the public interest in disclosure. determine if these files will shed some light continued from page I "A copy of the enclosed Reply, classi- on the assassination investigation. We'll let the research community, a coordinated you know what they find. fied SECRET; is being sumitted under effort took place to lobby the House Ap- separate cover to Marvin Krislov, Associ- Normaru propriations Subcommittee on Treasury, ate Counsel at The White House." Richie, does an original copy of the grand Postal Service and General Government. The contents page of the 26 page reply jury testimony exist anywhere else. This effort was led by representatives and to the FBI's appeal shows that the ARRB Richard: friends of COPA like John Judge, Dan has come down on the research Well, Connick told me that he had some Alcorn, John Newman, and Washington community's side on this issue: copies of grand jury testimony I don't columnist Sarah McClendon. As a result know if what he has is some of the other of this effort, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D) of Part I: The JFK Art Presumes Disclosure of Assassi- originals or if they're copies. He says he Maryland sponsored an amendment that nation Records can't make that public because its grand restored funding in the House to 2.15 Part II. The FBI's Informant Postponements jury testimony. He'll probably burn those. million for the ARAB. The bill was passed A. The FBI Failed To Meet its Statutory Obli- and then sent on to the equivalent com- gation to Provide Clear and Convincing Susaxu mittee in the Senate led by Sen. Shelby (R) Evidence Now since you've gotten actually your of Alabama and Sen. Kerrey (D) of Ne- B. The FBI's 'Broad-Brush' Arguments hands on these, conspiracy buffs who are braska. It was passed there also. The vil- Against Release of Information About In- still out there would want to know, did formants Should be Rejected lain in this drama was Rep. Jim Lightfoot C. In the Absence of Clear and Convincing you see anything surprising in it? (R) of Iowa who originally moved the bill Evidence to the Contrary, the JFK Act Re- Elcharth to cancel the ARRB in the House Commit- quires Full and immediate Release of the Appealed Documents Not from what I know of the Kennedy as- tee on Appropriations. We understand sassination. I mean one of the things l read that the line being sold in the House was Part The FBI's 'Foreign Relations" Postponements first was Perry Raymond Russo's grand that the National Archives could do the jury testimony because he's the one who equivalent job that the ARRB was doing. We back the belief in total candor. In placed Oswald, Shaw, and Ferric together. We won't comment on the inanity of fact we think its the only tenable view But if you step back a little hit and you that obvious deception. today. We trust the Review Board's judg- know what happened to Perry Raymond There was a downside in all this ment since it is certainly not composed of Russo, he was given sodium pentothal, he though. President Clinton had originally fringe, or irresponsible professionals. in was hypnotized at one point because he asked for an operating budget of 2.4 mil- fact, in Graff and Hall, it contains two had no independent recollection of this, And lion. In the view of many, that was not former intelligence employees. Does any- under hypnosis it was suggested to him enough. But the amount voted in both one believe they would vote to endanger that there was a gray-haired man at a the Senate and House versions of the bill "national security"? It is a critical time party he went to. So when you put this all was 2.15 million. It seems the DeConcini and we are glad it came early. Here and in context nothing's really new. And that's effort of the previous year to whittle elsewhere, we urge everyone to call or why we're giving them to the expert so down the budget has taken a mental hold fax the White House, and FBI Director that he can go through them and give us a on the funding figure in Congress. Next Mr. Fresh to make their voices heard on synopsis of everything. year PROBE will prepare its readership in this momentous issue. Mr. Clinton must Sus= advance to lobby the appropriate com- back the ARRB in this first appeal by the mittees for the higher figure. * Good, maybe we'll get more. Great story FBI to the White House. These appeals for Richard. secrecy and non-review have led the Bu- reau into suspicion on the King case, and Norman: ARSE Meets Hurdles culpability in Ruby Ridge and Waco. Let And the mystery continues. continued from page 1 this appeal fall where the previous ones It's too bad that Angelico's report didn't should have on deaf ears. stop after the Comick interview. Two falla- to redact has already been officially re- cies were appended to it at that point. First, leased by the Bureau. We respectfully re- the implication by Panzeca is confusing. De- quest that you carefully consider the Make Your Voice Heard. fense lawyers are not allowed to contest the merits of the arguments raised in our Re- prosecution's case to a grand jury today just ply. Director Louie heel as they were not back them so its hard to "in making its formal determinations, FBI decipher what he means when he says the the Board carefully considered the assas- 10th & Pennsylvania Ave. NW case would not have gone to trial if he sination records in question and deter- Washington D.C. 20535 would have known what was in the grand mined that the public interest in the Phone: 202-3243000 Fax: 324-4705 jury testimony. Secondly, Angelico repeats release of all of the information contained the ancient James Phelan canard about in them outweighted the insufficient evi- President Sill Clinton Russo. As the recent revelations in the actual dence that the FBI had offered in support The White House interviews, trial testimony, and Bill Turner's of continued secrecy. The Review Board Washington D.C. 20500 unpublished manuscript show, Russo men- has, and will, postpone the release of in- Phone: 202-456-1111 Far 202-456-2481 tioned the name Bertrand before he was hyp- formation in casts where the statutorily e mail: presIdente-whitehouse.gcv notized and without being prompted.-Ed. mandated "clear and convincing evidence" nom July 22, 1995 Page 8 ARRB Hearing in New Orleans: A Participant's View by Steve Tyler found myself face to face with none other I was initially flattered when ARRB on my documentary fully convinced of than—Gerald Fbsner! I assumed Pozzie counsel Thomas Samoluk contacted me last Shaw's innocence but had since become spring about testifying at the would at least know who I was since I had plagued with reasonable doubt. I heard New Orleans once been asked to "debate" him on a local hearings scheduled for June 28. I warned someone in the audience sigh sympa- talk show when his book tour came Torn that my humble testimony might rep- thetically, "Finally!" I wanted to sneak a through New Orleans (remember—they resent a classic good news/bad news story: look to see who it was but decided that think I'm an expert.) Unable to make it to the good news might be gauche; suffice it to say I as- was that I probably knew as the studio, I had done a phone-in instead; much about the Garrison case as any na- sumed it wasn't Posner. he had seen my program and loved it— tive New Orleanian Unfortunately, that I suggested that one way of clearing although reasonably objective it's more was also the bad news. After all, Rosemary up my growing doubt would be to locate sympathetic to Shaw than Garrison—but James and David Snyder are still considered the rest of Garrison's files, Shaw's CIA when I informed him of my growing dis- Garrison experts around here. contact reports from the 40's and 50's, illusionment we essentially agreed to dis- When I made my 1992 television docu- everything on Shaw's involvement with agree. I hasten to add that I had second mentary, He Must Have Something, I OK/ENCHANT, all files on Permindex em- thoughts about introducing myself to braced the beliefs most residents of "The and/or Centro Mondiale Comerciale, the Posner; the thought crossed my mind City That Care Forgot" still hold about the Church Committee's files on CIA media that one day I'll finally write my book on Garrison investigation: that Clay Shaw was assets, all INCA files, Shaw's defense at- a respected, even beloved man whose disas- Shaw and it'll be debunked by the re- torney records and all notes and materi- search community because some picture trous prosecution has come to symbolize als compiled by L.J. Delsa and.Robert surfaces that shows me talking to Gerald the futility of any suggestion that JFK's as- Buras during their work for the HSCA. Posner. Well, sorry guys, I'm from the sassination was the result of a conspiracy. I When I finished my testimony, I was South. I was raised to be polite. Many in suggested to "Ibm that if my testimony besieged by requests for interviews by all were to serve any useful purpose, it the community might say, "I wouldn't three network local affiliates. I told each might be to describe my personal assassi- give Posner the time of day." Well, I did. of them essentially the same thing: until But I gave him nation story—how my attendance at the wrong time. all of these files and documents are lo- As! was talking to Posner—he told me A.S.K. '92 concluded one aspect of my cated and secured, then all we can have journey and sent me on another one— he just happened to be in New Orleans for is doubt. I happened to pass Connick as one that has taken me on "other reasons," we know what those rea- he was giving an interview to another a hundred and sons are now—I spotted New Orleans re- eighty degree turn. group of reporters. The "sound bite" 1 So testify I did, taking the hot seat after searcher Guyton Stubbs out of the corner heard was the predictable "Garrison's in- Harry Connick, Sr., Congresswoman Lindy of my eye. I admit to being a little paranoid vestigation was completely absurd." Boggs, and Cynthia Wegmann, daughter of to begin with, but I was sure the look on These words would come back to haunt Shaw's late attorney Edward. Connick Guyton's face said "Turncoat!" the DA. People in glass houses, Harry! 4* probably rues the day he ever agreed to tes- Pasner was affable enough, introducing me to his tify, as his comments about the need to wife as "the guy who made that Be a participant yourself! Find out what's great documentary on the Shaw trial." preserve all of Garrison's files that hadn't going on in the research community by been "stolen" from the DA's office were to Okay, so maybe he has disdain for the attending: come back to haunt him, as most readers facts, but the guy has good taste. When of this journal are well aware. What was our brief pleasantries were over, I made a notable about the distinguished former beeline for Guyton and told him that I've COM Congresswoman's brief remarks was she always lived by the credo that Vito Corleone passed on to his son Michael: Coalition On Political Assassinations intimated that her late husband Hale had Second Annual Conference essentially embraced the Warren "Keep your friends close, but your en- Commission's findings. I found this a cu- emies closer." Besides, I told Guyton, I don't think Posner's going to like hearing JFK-RFK-IALK rious claim, as I seemed to recall reading New Evidence From the Files on more than one occasion that Hale had what I have to say when I testify. had serious doubts. When it came my turn to testify, I provided the proceedings with the kind of Omni Shoreham Hotel Ms. Wegmann took the stand and re- Washington D.C. cited the standard Shaw persecution litany: moment I sensed was wanted. Since I had agreed to donate all the unedited inter- that he was a noble, dignified man whose October 20-22, 1995 prosecution was a travesty of justice. What views from He Must Have Something to the National Archives, I reached under the most New Orleanians refuse to consider is Meet the people who do the groundwork on this that this profile begs the question whether table and plopped a crate full of outtakes in full case Hear the latest and greatest of what's Shaw could have been up to some nefarious view of the news cameras. I made a bet with myself that this is the shot corning out of the files. This year. an awards deeds as well—starting with perjury. dinner salutes outstanding researchers. As my time drew near I thought it pru- they'd use on the news that night; wasn't disappointed. dent to take a quick trip to the men's room. For information and tickets, call As I stepped into the hallway I suddenly I told the board about my assassina- tion metamorphosis, how I began work (202) 310-1858 ------PRO3E July 22, 1998 Page 9 Ted Charach/s Press Conference: Thane Eugene Cesar's Gun Found By David Manning the gun test-fired by Wolfer as H-18602. Yet, Charach's 25 year search for it. In truth, heretics are more despised than the serial number of Sirhan's gun is actually At one point during the press conference, infidels. In practice, it is never more true H-53 725. Wolfer has always stated (even un- Beaux Carson brought in a man toting a than in the attitude of the political elite and der oath) this discrepancy was merely a metal briefcase and a handcuff attached to his the wags who sing their praises, toward "clerical error" wrist. Inside the briefcase was the nine-shot, the assassination research community. The Charach also revealed that last year he .22 caliber revolver, serial number Y-13332, most recent case in point was the non-cov- made a trip to the Middle East. During that salvaged from a muddy pond in Arkansas af- erage of the press conference held by RFK trip he met with members of the Israeli ter 25 years. This is the gun which war assassination researcher, 'Rd Charach. Mossad who, Charach implied, had been owned by Thane Eugene Cesar and which Charach used the occasion of the 27th an- aware of the CIA s use of Sirhan Bishara Charach believes is the second gun used in the niversary of RFK's death to reveal the latest Sirhan as a mind-control subject and a pro- assassination Sirhan's gun was an eight- findings in the case. Surprisingly or not so grammed assassin. He offered up a film he shot, Iver-Johnson Cadet, .22 caliber revolver, surprisingly, not one re- had made of these discus- serial number H-53725. porter from any news orga- sions with the Mossad This was the first public display of the nization showed up! agents to any legitimate gun since its recovery in 1993. Carson an- It is no small coincidence news service organization nounced that tests on the gun and test-fir- that author Dan Moldea also for airing and analysis on ings will be made sometime this year by called a press conference at American television. independent forensic labs. He stated he had exactly 11:00 a.m. on Mon- Another film he offered also been approached by law enforcement day, June 5th, ostensibly to to any news service organi- agencies who expressed interest in test-fir- hype his latest book The Kill- zation was that of an inter- ing the gun using their own forensic ex- ing of Robert F. Kennedy. Since view of shooting eyewitness perts. He hesitated to identify which law the book concludes that Donald Schulman who that enforcement agencies were interested. Sirhan acting alone shot and night told Jerry Dunphy of We came away from the press confer- killed Robert Kennedy, we KNXT news (now KCBS) ence believing ourselves more blessed for wonder if any news organization covered that a security guard had fired his gun the cursed heretic and despising evermore Moldea's press conference. We certainly did back at Sirhan and had accidentally shot the beloved infidel. + not sec, hear or read anything about the RFK. Jerry Dunphy and KCBS press conference, so we're left to conclude have denied that this interview lune 15, 1993 one of two things; either Moldca had noth- ever took place. Of course, since Mr. Roux Carson ing very compelling to say or the press no news organization was rep- JC Enteminmem resental at the press conference, 4500 Forman coverage in this town is a lot worse than Toluca Lake, CA 91602 anyone realized. nobody took Charach up on his RE: Examination of RFK. Second Gun. In the course of recapping that which is offer to air either of these films. Dear Mr. Carson: known from the release.of his book, ar- "Itel Charach, who re- A 9-shot H & R. 22 Revolver, with serial No. Y13332 was examined using an ticles, video and film presentations, fers to himself as the "Father of optical microscope told a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Special al- Charach revealed several new pieces of evi- the Second Gun Theory" in the tonbon was paid to examine for any alteration in the seiral number of the revolver. dence which substantiate the charges of ob- assassination of Robert F. Optical and SEM examination revealed that the surface of the revolver at the struction of justice, subornation of perjury Kennedy, has teamed up with burl end with the serial number did not show any grindrng marks or surface and a cover-up in this case. He also revealed feature film producers, Beaux obliteration. This surface was identical to the other surfaces of the gun The a new wrinkle in his second gun theory. He Carson and Ilin Gibbons to tell grooves for the serial numbers and the pits on the steel surfaces were filled with natural oxide (that shows the age) and handling debris accumulated over now believes that not only did Thane Eugene the story of the search for the a period of time. Cesar fatally shoat RFK in the head, but like second gun and the lives who Optical and SEM micrographs &tamed of the serial number are attached and Sirhan, as discussed in the book The Assassina- have been affected by the search. show no grinding marks or surface obliteration. Energy Dispersive X-ray tion of Rabat F Kennedy, by Jon Christian and The project is titled, "Op- (EDX) microprobe analysis revelaed that the revolver handle was made from William Thrner, Cesar was a programmed as- eration Tinker Toy" - Phase I a plain carbon steel containing silicon and manganese, Th eEDX microprobe spectra obtained on the handle surface as well as within a surface pit are sassin and has no memory of the acts he and Phase II. It's the story of attached. committed that night. how the gun turned up in Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions regard. Charach displayed copies of documents re- the possession of certain resi- ing this analysis. covered from state archives which bolstered dents of a little town in Ar- the 1970 testimony of criminalist William kansas, and how their lives Sincerely, Harper. Harper testified that LAPD criminalist took rather dramatic turns SEAL LABORATORIES DeWayne Wolfer had falsified the results of for the worse under possession Arun Kumar. PhD the test-firing of the gun used by Sirhan. The of this gun. Their story is told Vice President. General Manager documents clearly show the serial number of within the backdrop of pqou July 22, 1995 Page 10 CTKA Pays Tribute to Women Women in the Research Community We have decided to devote a special section of PROBE to honor some of the current and prominent female contributors in the research community. For a long time when women in the field were mentioned, the only two names listed were Sylvia Meagher and Mary Ferrell; the former for her wonderful book "Accessories After the Fact", the latter for her personal archives. "JFK" changed that equation. But even at the symposiums held immediately afterward—except for Stone's assistant Jane Rusconi—new female faces were rarely seen on Anna. Marie Kuhns-Walko the dais. Last year's COPA conference was a slight improvement. Carol and Kathleen were on panels. But Milicent's presentation What One Can Do on the alteration of John Corxnally's hospital testimony was by Steve Jones rushed and Anne-Marie was inexcusably shunted into a "Ask not what your country can do for sideroom. We hope that doesn't happen again and we do what we you...." For most Americans today these can here to both recognize their work and reverse a neglect that words are but a distant memory or at best cannot be called benign. a part of some arcane history lesson. But for Anna Marie Kuhns-Walko the challenge the media, or the government, rely upon after Kruschev's promise to remove them that President John Kennedy gave to us 34 researchers for information and then pub- during the Cuban missile crisis of October, years ago is as real and important today as licly refer to them as 'conspiracy buffs.' i 1962. One of the key players in this drama, it was when it was first issued. hate that term. I don't buff anyone's shoes. John Martino, has been independently For the past year and a half, Anna has I prefer to be referred to simply as a citizen identified as being involved in JFK's murder. devoted her life to doing her best to live up who is deeply concerned that so much of She found an envelope with the inscrip- to that challenge. She is helping to bring our real history has been kept hidden from tion "7.65 shell found in Dealey Plaza on about a more open and honest government us. In going through the files, it's become 12/02/63," only to find that the shell had so that past crimes held secret may never clear to me that the government isn't going been removed from the envelope with a be repeated again. Between August 1993 to take the initiative in telling the truth note left in its place that stated, 'deter- and January 1995, Anna spent almost ev- about who killed President Kennedy. We mined of no value and destroyed." Oswald ery day, sometimes as much as 50-60 citizens have to make them accountable; to was alleged to have used 6.5 ammunition. hours per week, at either the National Ar- do what is right for the people." Another document she uncovered states, chives building in downtown Washington Anna's passion for politics began as a "photo of bullet allegedly removed from or at the newly opened Archives II in Col- child growing up in Pittsburgh, PA. As a President Kennedy's body." This was found lege Park, Maryland, digging through mil- little girl she attended Democratic party with accompanying photos of a nearly lions of documents released under the JFK and steel-workers union meetings with her whole bullet. According to the Warren Assassination Materials Disclosure Act of mother. As a seven year old, she saw John Commission version of events no bullet 1992. No professional historian, journalist, Kennedy while he was on a campaign was ever removed from President researcher or government bureaucrat is as swing through her town on October 10, Kennedy's body. The only bullet mentioned familiar with the Kennedy assassination 1960. Anna went on to college and earned in their report are "traces" that were found materials as this wife and mother of two three Associate degrees, a bachelors degree, as minute particles which showed up on a grown children. In fact, one security guard and accumulated fifteen credits towards her skull x-ray. at the National Archives became so used to Masters degree in political science. She ac- A document dated February, 1960, seeing her there that he assumed she was complished this while enduring the many claims that then Vice President Richard an archives employee. moves required of her due to her husband's Nixon was arranging for two million dol- Anna has been an invaluable asset to career in the military. lars to be turned over to a Cuban revolu- countless authors and fellow researchers Anna states that she has uncovered tionary group and used for the purpose of who have made the journey to the new enough information in the newly released overthrowing Fidel Castro's government. College Park archives. Many have relied files to convince her that the assassination It was the public furor caused by the re- upon her for advice and information. An was the result of "a covert operation from lease of Oliver Stone's movie "JFK" that almost equal number have been warmly within the United States." Among the brought about the creation of a five person invited into her home. She gladly shares documents she's uncovered so far: review board of eminent historians who are her research work with others out of a Documents exposing "Operation TILT": responsible for the release of many docu- firm conviction that all Americans have a an ill-fated attempt to smuggle four Soviet ments in the government's possession. This right to know their own history. Military officers out of Cuba who allegedly review board was given a working staff, a The only thing that upsets her is "When maintained that missiles were still in place continued on page 12 pRe3E July 22, 1995 •- . • ...... •

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wide variety of topics which thus far have covered the Dallas "sleaze scene" including night club operators and gunrunners; Kerry Thornley and E. Howard Hunt as possible propaganda assets; the history of Mannlicher-Carcanos; and an overview of the circumstantial evidence that might have been admitted into a trial had there been one. And so I arrived full circle - from deep politics to the nitpicking details of a Dallas police investigation. Carol Hewett I regard the most significant research de- Milicent Cranor velopment of the 1990's (aside from the Coming Full Circle historical release of previously classified Excavating History by Carol Hewett documents) to be the shift in attitude in a by Milicent Cranor growing number of pro-conspiracy re- i became mildly interested in the assassi- searchers that Oswald may have been in- All kinds of expertise and semi-expertise nation as a result of the Oliver Stone movie volved in the assassination after all. can be applied to the study of the IgInnedy and casually pursued this interest by read- Oswald's innocence up until now has been assassination. In my case, an amateur's ing general books about the assassination a sacred cow, which if challenged in the passion for archeology and what it reveals by Garrison, Lane, Summers, etc. I was far slightest, causes Oswald's defenders to ac- about ancient crimes carried over to the from being a serious researcher and simply cuse other researchers of being traitors to crime of this centruy. viewed the case as a yet unsolved murder the cause.lfed this thwarts progress by In archeology, you get the conqueror's mystery - a much better read than Dash preventing evidence from being tested version of the truth filtered through layers Hammett novels. However, I became against a variety of hypotheses which in of dead languages, and a lot is left in the hooked by Michael Beschloss's book, May- turn I feel is essential to unraveling what filter. Sometimes the truth can be found, day, on the Gary Powers U-2 spy affair happened on November 22, 1963. I confess not on a great stone monument, but be- wherein Lee Harvey Oswald's name sud- to being part of the small minority of re- neath it, in layers of debris, trampled on for denly appears on page 236. Beschloss sug- searchers who seriously doubt Oswald's in- centuries. You find fragements of ancient gests that Oswald, as a former U-2 radar nocence yet who fervently be_lieve,in-a texts, and fragments of individual letters, operator, may have been infiltrated into conspiracy. While I may be in a Minority which may or may not belong together. Russia and utilized to sabotage Powers's amongst conspiracy theorists, I Nrtli3ff You combine certain pieces, and take special flight and the upcoming summit between less keep company with the majori care to keep others separate. the superpowers. The timing of these Americans - who have maintained that Os- The testimonies of witnesses to the events and the fact that Oswald was re- wald did not act alone. Kennedy assassination all seems to be leased shortly after the }k wens exchange My particular approach to research jagged fragments of the same picture. Some for Rudolf Abel put Oswald into an entirely comes from my own tendency as a trial of the stories don't seem to fit at all, until different perspective for me and I embarked lawyer to analyze facts in such a way so as you ask the right questions; then you find upon research into cold war politics and to reconcile apparent discrepancies. Only in that someone has shifted the context, and Oswald's military background - still with- this way can a lawyer make his or her ver- you have to rtframe the answers. out much interest in the events of Dallas. sion of the case acceptable to judges and ju- The best archeologists try to fill in a lot I mentally traveled the Far East, Russia rors who arc receiving conflicting data. In of blanks with imagination and logic, and and Cuba from post WWII to the Bay of other words, what case scenario would al- keep track of every speck of dust that sug- Pigs. Eventually I found myself physically low both sets of seemingly conflicting facts gests a different picture. present in Texas in September of 1992 to exist? This "reconciliation" process can be In contrast, spokesmen for the official looking for an obscure book in the Dallas applied to JFK research as well. For ex- version of the Kennedy assassination iden- library entitled Oswald, by Kerry Thornley, ample: if there is both reliable evidence of tify no important blanks, and sweep only because there were no copies available only 3 shots and reliable evidence of more mounds of contradiction beneath a grey in Florida's libraries and I had an airline than 3 shots, then what additional un- rug. I try to identify the blanks - as well as ticket that needed to be used up by the known factor might explain both phenom- the shape of the lumps under the rug Less year's end. It was in Dallas that I discov- ena? One possible answer could be the use difficult is identifying the lumps standing ered that there were others like me who re- of silencers. Thus I began researching both on the rug, doing business as usual. 4 searched and who actually came together Mannlicher-Carcanos as well as sniper Milirrnt Cranor is the co-author of over a at conferences to study the assassination! weapons. The results are rather interesting dozen articles for peer-reviewed medical jour- From my first attendance at ASK 1992 un- because in 1963 there existed CIA sniper nals, amateur paleographer, former staff til the present, I have worked vigorously weapons equipped with silencers (that did writer for Applause Magazine, and former edi- on JFK research and fend myself pursuing a continued on page 12 tor at E P. Dutton P343E July 22, 1995 Anna Marie Kuhns-Walko Mannlicher from Klein's in the name of an new document - otherwise I could not con- continued from page 10 alias of Oswald's and in the handwriting of tinue with my own research if I sensed it budget of $2 million dollars and a three Oswald, yet a 42" rifle arrives instead of the was a bottomless pit. Even without a de- year life span to carry out this task. 36" which he ordered; 3) a paper bag on the finitive answer, I now understand my gov- Though the board was to have begun their sixth floor containing Oswald's blanket fi- ernment better than I did before. I have also work in 1993, it was not ready to begin bers yet a similar bag addressed to Oswald made many wonderful friends from within a work until well into 1994. In the mean- languishes in the "dead mail' bin of an Irv- group of the most dedicated and intellectually time, researchers Mee Anna didn't waste ing post office; 4) backyard photos hidden stintulating folks that I have encountered precious time waiting for the government amongst his personal possessions showing since my college days. What a welcome re- to act. She was already on the trail long be- him to be a left-wing militant armed to his spite from the grind of the work-a-day fore the ARRB became functional, teeth yet bearing the markings of being world. History has never been so alive! But the Review Board still has an impor- faked; 5) ownership of a handgun of the Carol Hewett is a practicing attorney in tant function. Just how efficiently and same 38 caliber that killed Tippet yet the Pinellas County, Florida, the same county honestly they operate will show how seri- Tippet bullets come from an automatic and where Ruth Paine now lives. Following her ous the government is about getting to the Oswald's hand gun is a revolver. Oswald graduation from the University of Texas School truth of the assassination. cannot only proclaim that he is a patsy, he of Law in 1975, she worked for various feder- What concerns Anna most is that the can prove it! He even says as much during ally funded legal services programs which en- recent lurch to the right in Congress may his interrogations. gaged in advocacy on behalf of institution- spell trouble for the board and the fate of At a bonafide sophoisticated frame-up alized persons, including mental patients, even more documents that arc due for re- of an innocent person be so flawed naturally? prisoners, foster children and juvenile delin- lease under this legislation. Right wing Or, as researcher Mlliam Weston argues, was quents. Her efforts were directed at safeguard- politicians generally favor authoritarianism Oswald actually a "sham" patsy who allowed ing their constitutional rights with regard to and secrecy. "We have to be vigilant and himself to be implicated provided he could be their conditions of confinement She later make sure they don't chop it, cut it or stop assured of escape and/or acquittal at trial? If served as litigation director of the National it. We have to watch and see that Congress Oswald was truly innocent, how does on ex- Juvenile Law Center, a now defunct program doesn't close down the Review Board." plain his departure from the hook depository, under the U.S. Department of Justice. While Despite her concerns, Anna is optimistic only to arm himself with a weapon and hide there she had occasion to represent Cuban that, In time, truth and justice will prevail. out in a dark theater. No other "innocent" youths in a landmark case which success_fully People have more to say than they believe book depository employee felt the need to challenged their indefinite detention in adult they do; more power in what can be done spend Friday afternoon in the manner selected jails following their arrival into the U.S. in than they realize. We have to keep trying by Oswald- Oswald was apparently In the the 1 980 Marie' boatlift. in 1982 she formed or we're never going to succeed." + know" about something - but what? her own law firm where she focused primarily Was Oswald "in the know" of the pend- on criminal defense and family Law. Since Carol Hewett ing plans to invade Cuba at the end of No- 1992 she has limited her practice to federal continued from page 11 vember 1963, a covert operation which is administrative appeals on behalf of social se- not muffle the sound as well as they slowly coming to Light for the first time in curity disability claimants which is far less should depending upon where the listener 30 years? Did this operation have official demanding than her previous trial work and is standing) which happened to have rifling sanction by the White House or were the which allows her to pursue assassination patterns very similar to the Mannlicher- Kennedy brothers oblivious to these covert research on almost a full-time basis. Caracanos. I will elaborate more on my activities? Was the assassination to be a findings in the next issue of Probe. fake one (to justify the invasion) which a - In Memoriam - What has also intrigued me about the few fanatics within the CIA and military Cindy McNeill JFK assassination was the manner in which transformed into a real one - one covert the evidence simultaneously implicated and operation hidden inside of another? How do 1952-1995 exonerated Oswald - it undisputedly rose to all of these notions square with the circum- Cindy McNeill of Houston, Texas passed the level of "probable cause" yet neatly fell stantial and physical evidence that is at away on March 21,1905 after a long battle short of proof "beyond a reasonable doubt. hand? The deep politics once again becomes with breast canner. Cindy, who was a wife, Even if Oswald had not been arrested in the as fascinating as the minute details - how mother, lawyer and regent with a local uni- Texas Theater that afternoon, the evidence could anyone not be sucked up into what versity, was a relative newcomer to the as- which came to light during that day was some perceive to be the black hole of assas- sassination research community, Yet she had abundantly sufficient to require the issu- sination research? We at least begin to un- spent years studying Richard Nixon and E. ance of an arrest warrant and the filing of derstand our body politic and thus our Howard Hunt and their possible roles In the charges against him. Yet this very same own roles as citizens of a democracy, do we Kennedy assassination. At the time of her evidence falls apart upon closer scrutiny not? No matter the individual theories, no death, Cindy left behind a lengthy unfinished and would not have held up at trial. Ex- matter the outcome, we are all as citizens manuscript about these two men. Those who amples abound but I will mention just a obligated to probe for the truth and to sup- had the opportunity to collaborate with few: 1} Oswald's fingerprints on the rifle port one another's efforts - without rancor Cindy will remember her Impressive com- which supported ownership, yet none on and back-biting criticism of one another's mand of the subject, her no-nonsense ap- the clip or handloaded cartridges which work, I might add. proach to research politics and her would have shown possession by him that I feel that we are arriving closer to the generosity and willingness to share her re- day; 2) the mail order purchase of a truth with each passing day and with each search with others. PRCW,E July 22, 1995 4,ti. ...

Gunrunner Ruby and the CIA by Lisa Pease Griffin and Hubert kept coming back to is right in the middle of his supposedly con- Its not as if they didn't know. Assistant that there was "much evidence" that Ruby tinuous stay in Cuba. Somehow, Ruby was counsels to the Warren Commission Burt "was interested in Cuban matters, citing his getting in and out of Cuba without the Cuban Griffin and Leon Hubert wrote, in a memo relationship to Louis McWillie; his at- authorities detecting and recording such. Why to the Warren Commission members dated tempted sale of jeeps to Castro, his reported was Ruby making multiple excursions to March 20, 1964, that "the most promising attendance of meetings "in connection with Cuba during this time? What were the na- links between Jack Ruby and the assassina- the sale of arms to Cubans and the smug- ture of these visits and why did he choose tion of President Kennedy are established gling out of refugees"; to hide them? through underworld figures and anti- and Ruby's quick cor- re going The reticence of in- Castro Cubans, and extreme right-wing rection of Wade's re- "They' vestigative bodies to in- Americans." TWo months later, Griffin and mark that Oswald was to find out about vestigate these matters Hubert wrote another memo to the Com- a member of the Free make sense when one mission, significantly titled "Adequacy of Cuba Committee, a Cuba. They're realizes that Jack Ruby the Ruby investigation" in which they group populated with was not going to Cuba warned, "we believe that a reasonable pos- such notables as Clare going to find out on pleasure trips. The sibility exists that Ruby has maintained a Booth Luce, Admiral about the guns, Warren Report tells of close interest in Cuban affairs to the extent Arleigh Burke, and Hal an incident in early necessary to participate in gun sales or Hendrix. "Bits of evi- find out about 1959 where Ruby made smuggling." dence link Ruby to oth- "preliminary inquiries, Ruby had talked about it himself while ers who may have been New Orleans, as a middleman, con- in jail, reportedly telling a friend, "They're interested in Cuban af- find out about cerning the possible sale going to find out about Cuba. They're go- fairs." to Cuba of some surplus ing to find out about the guns, find out What was their rec- everything." jeeps located in Shreve- about New Orleans, find out about every- ommendation, based on port, La., and asked thing.", Tales of Ruby running guns to such tantalizing evi- about the possible re- Cuba abounded in the FBI reports taken in dence? We suggest that these matters can- lease of prisoners from a Cuban prison."' the first weeks after the assassination, yet not be left 'hanging in the air.' They must Ruby's sister indicated the jeeps might have neither the Warren Commission nor the either be explored further or a firm derision been military surplus from WWII."' Both House Select Committee pursued those must be made not to do so supported by the story of the jeeps and the story of the leads very fan. Griffin and Hubert expressed stated reasons for the decision." History has prisoners tie Ruby to some interesting Cu- concern over this, saying that "neither given us the commission's decision on this, ban activities. Oswald's Cuban interests in Dallas nor but a clue to the motivation shows up in Ruby's Cuban activities have been ad- this same memo, in regards to Seth Kantor, A Whole Lot of Jeeps equately explored." who claimed to have seen Ruby at Parkland Tineas gunrunner Robert McKeown said hospital around the time of Kennedy's Ruby "had a whole lot of jeeps he wanted If They Dared death. "We must decide who is telling the to get to Castro." Ruby wanted McKeown Hubert and Griffin expressed in their truth, for there would be considerable signifi- to write a personal letter of introduction to memo of May 14 to Rankin that "we be- canre if it would be concluded that Ruby is ly- Castro for Ruby so he could talk to Castro lieve that the possibility exists, based on ing." (emphasis added) The concern was not about releasing some unnamed friends de- evidence already available, that Ruby was what the truth was, but what the truth tained in Havana." involved in illegal dealings with Cuban ele- might mean if it was uncomfortably dis- At that time, Santo Traffirante was be- ments who might have had contact with covered. ing held at the Trescornia detention center Oswald. The existence of such dealings can Ruby was lying, and the implications are in Cuba. Was Ruby instrumental in win- only be surmised since the present investi- enormous. ning It'a.fficante's release at that time? gation has not focused on that area." They John Wilson Hudson (a.k.a. John Wilson), expressed concern that "Ruby had time to Cuban Excursions an English journalist supposedly detained engage in susbtantlal activities in addition Ruby had told the Warren Commission with Ttafficante in the camp, indicated that to the management of his Clubs" and that he had only been to Cuba once, on vaca- Ruby came to see Trafficante in Trescornia.', "Ruby has always been a person who tion, for a week to ten days. Not true. Ac- After Ruby shot Oswald, according to CIA looked for money-making 'sidelines'." They cording to Cuban travel records, Jack Ruby cables, Wilson contacted the American Em- even suggested that since the Fort Worth entered Cuba from New Orleans on August bassy and reported that "an American manufacturer of the famous "Twist Board" 8, 1959; left Cuba September 11, 1959: re- gangster called Santo...was visited by an Ruby was demonstrating the night after entered Cuba from Miami on September American gangster type named Ruby.", If the assassination had no known sales, and 12, 1959; and returned from Cuba to New Ruby was trying to sell jeeps to Castro, as was manufactured by an oil field equip- Orleans on September 13, 1959.' But bank McKeown said, was this an arms-for-hos- ment company, that "ltlhe possibility re- records'', Dallas police records', and FBI tages type deal? Get Castro the jeeps and mains that the 'twist board' was a front records" showed Ruby in Dallas August 10, get Trafficante out of jail? Recent events re- for some other illegal enterprise." But what 21, 31, and September 4, days which fall mind us this certainly wouldn't have been pgicsE July 22, 1995 Page 14

Gunrunner Ruby 'Mr. Trafficante, did you ever discuss with Jack and James any individual plans to assassinate President continued from page 13 Mrs. Mary Thompson met a man Kennedy prior to his assassination?' named "Jack" accompanied by a women, the only such effort in history. Itafficante "Mr Trafficante, while you were in prison not his wife, named "Isabel" at the home of was released from the detention center in in Cuba, were you visited by Jack Ruby?" Mary Lou and James Woodard in August, 1959", possibly just after Ruby's When the questions were opened to the Islamorada, Florida." At the time, Mary appearance there. others present, more questions followed in Thompson was accompanied by her the same vein. Note: no one was asking ques- daughter Dolores and Dolores's husband. Questioning Trafficante tions about Trafficante's mob involvement_ Jack was said to be from Chicago origi- Trafficante is a person often portrayed They were interested in his ties to the gov- nally, Mrs. Thompson placed the date of as one of Ruby's mob contacts. But ernment: this encounter around the end of May of Ttafficante was one of the "gangsters" who "Mr Trafficante, as a result of your ap- 1958. Interestingly enough, she said Jack's participated in the CINs Castro assassina- pearance herr today, have you been threatened first real name was Leon but went by Jack. tion attempts, according to the CIA Inspec- by anyone, any group or agency? Has your lyre Jack Ruby's middle name was Leon. tor General's report. Key to understanding been threatened in any way?" Mary Lou Woodard said Jack had a the seriousness of defining Trafficante's re- "Mr. Thafficante, have you been contacted trunk full of guns he was going to supply lationship with !baby are the questions by any agency in the executive branch, say the to Cubans. Mary Thompson stated originally put to him before Blakey took she'd been told there were supplies of over the HSCA, by then-chief counsel Ri- "Mr. Trafficante, have you at guns hidden in the marshes that were chard Sprague." "lb all of the following, any time been an employee, a being collected by the Indians in the area Trafficantes response was, "1 respect- to be sold to the Cubans, as this was fully refuse to answer that question pur- contract employee, or in any around the time of the Cuban revolu- suant to my constitutional rights under manner been in the service of tion. Mary Thompson's daughter the 1st, 4th, 5th, and 14th amend- the Central Intelligence Agency, Dolores also saw and described this ments." This is the legal outlet allowed same Jack, as did Mrs. W. R. Simons. when a truthful answer will be self-in- or any other agency of the Dolores recalled that her husband's criminating, and Trafficante used it Federal Government of the friend James Woodard, while drunk one throughout. United States?" night, declared he would run guns to The first question out of Sprague's Cuba with Jack. Woodard had two or mouth is probably indicative of why he three guns of his own but said Jack had was eventually ousted - he had a habit of CIA or FBI, in connection with your possible a lot more. When shown a photo of Jack getting right to the point: testimony before or after you received formal Ruby she said it resembled the man she re- "Mr. Thafficante, have you at any time bem subpena to appear before this committee?" membered, although she didn't remember an employee, a contract employee, or in any Ttafficante's involvement with the CIA his last name as being "Ruby." manner been in the service of the Central Intel- and Ruby bear further scrutiny. The Review A check of the Knoxville FBI files showed ligente Agency, or any other agency of the Fed- Board should be asked to release all CIA and that James Woodard was considered a-al Government of the United States?" FBI files on Santo Trafficante. "armed and dangerous", packed a weapon, The rest of the questions followed in a The story of Jack Ruby getting and had a violent temper when drinking. similar vein: ltafficante out of a Cuban jail was not the Interviewed by the FBI in September of 'Mr. Trafficante, did you know John only such allegation. There is another alle- 1963, Woodard "in somewhat rambling Rosselli?" gation from a different source that Ruby and incoherent mariner" talked of his par- "Mr. Thafficante, did you know Sam was involved in some guns for hostages ticipation in an invasion of Cuba prior to Giancana?" deal. the Castro regime, that he had again par- "Mr. Thaffirante, do you know Robert Nancy Perrin Rich told the Warren Corn- ticipated in the Bay of Pigs and had fur- Maheu?" mission a fascinating story about a group nished ammunition and dynamite to both "Mr. Thafficante, prior to November 22, running Enfield rifles to Castro in order to Castro and the Cuban exile forces. On Octo- 1963, did you have information that Presi- run refugees out of Cuba to Florida. The ber 8, 1963, Woodard was questioned dent Kennedy was going to be assassinated?" guns were to be run through Mexico. Ruby again, this time concerning dynamite "Mr. Thafficante, prior to November 22, was evidently the bagman for this group, found at his residence in South Dade 1963, did you advise other people of the as- since his appearance on at least one occa- County, Florida, as the dynamite had been sassination of President Kennedy?' sion made the cries about lack of money stolen from a construction company. He "Mr. Trafficante, prior to November 22, disappear when he walked in." claimed the dynamite was being used by 1963, did you know Jack Ruby?" Nancy Perrin Rich's story is perhaps the Cuban exile forces fighting the Castro re- "Mr. Thafficante, have you ever met with most widely retold of Ruby's gunninning gime. representatives of the Central Intelligence episodes. But there are a number of other odd After the assassination, James Agency to discuss the assassination of vari- stories that bear dissemination, some with Woodard's sister said James had been in ous world leaders, including Fidel Castro?" more substantiation than others. There are Texas a lot, and that she had asked James if "Mr. Trafficante, is any agency of the the new Elrod revelations that put Ruby in the he ever knew Ruby. He said no, but then U.S. Government giving you any immunity middle of yet another gunrunning scenario." promptly disappeared and hadn't been seen with regard to any plans to assassinate any And there is a story from Islamorada, Florida since November 25, 1963. If he truly had world leaders?' that leads to interesting places. been running guns with Ruby to the CIA- PgICSE July 22, 1995 Page 15

sponsored Cuban exile fortes, one can went on to name three people who he said DeMohrenschildt section, not the Jack surely imagine a hefty motive for his sud- could corroborate his story: Joe Marrs of Ruby section. Is there a tie there linking den disappearance after Ruby appeared on Marrs Aircraft whom Ruby contracted to DeMohrenschildt to Jack Ruby? Only three the public scene by shooting Oswald. make flights to Cuba; former Chief of Police small "innocuous" reports of the more than Woodard is another person whose records in Hialeah, Florida Leslie Lewis, who would 1000 pages the FBI has on Browder were the Review Board should look into to shed know of Ruby's gunrunning and smug- released to the Warren Commission." It's light on Ruby's contacts with Cubans and gling operations; and Clifton T. Bowes. Jr., time the remaining documents on Browder, gunrunning. formerly captain of National Airlines, Mi- including the full text-of his executive ses- Perhaps Ruby was concerned enough to ami, for further corroboration. sion testimony before the HSCA, were re- hide his activities not so much because he Joe Marrs worked for Eastern Airlines. leased Any Browder who used the Don was running guns, but because of who he He claimed he never flew for hire or trans- Eduardo alias", worked with was running them for, and with. ported goods. He knew Browder, but DeMohrenschildt, and ran guns with Ruby By far the most interesting account of claimed he avoided Browder as he saw him to Cuba is worthy of further study. Ruby's gunrunning is found in an FBI re- as a shady promoter who was all talk (Io be continued in the next PROBE.) port taken a week after the assassination. about air transport plans but no money Informant "T-2' (Blaney Mack Johnson) (an amusing revelation from a man who Notes revealed that in the early 1950s a man he just a few words earlier had said he didn't 'George Michael Evica, And We Are All Mortal knew then as "Rubenstein" arranged illegal fly for hire.F (University of Hartford, 1978), p. 161. flights of weapons to the Castro organiza- Les Lewis, the former Chief of Police, de- 'Peter Dale Scott, Deep Polines and the Death of tion in Cuba. He added that Rubenstein left nied knowing Jack Ruby and claimed to JFK (University of California Press, Ltd, 1993), Miami and purchased a substantial share in have "no knowledge whatsoever of persons p. 179. a Havana gaming house in which one flying weapons to Cuba." A Hialeah Police ' Memorandum to J. Let Rankin from Leon D. Hubert and Burt W. Griffin, May 14, 1964. COWS PRIO (phonetic) was principal Chief having no knowledge of persons fly- owner."" One recognizes the name Carlos P. 3. ing weapons to Cuba in the fifties is a bit 'Memorandum to J. Lee Rankin from Leon Prio Soccaras, especially when T-2 linked hard to believe. And of course, Lewis com- D. Hubert and Burt W. Griffin, May 14, 1964. "COI 1 IS" to Batista. In the early 50s Prio pletely denied ever knowing a Donald Ed- p. 4. was a supporter of the Batista regime un- ward Browder.23 3HSCA, Vol. 5, pp. 197-198. der which he had grown exceedingly Clifton T. Bowes was sure he never "HSCA, Vol. 5, p. 204. On page 205 Stokes wealthy, but in the mid to late 50s Prio knew a Jack Rubenstein and said he first said that Ruby was admitted to his box on Au- worked hand in hand with Castro, aided by heard of Ruby watching him on television. gust 20th, but the copy of the FBI report on the the CIA, to overthrow the increasingly dif- He did not know a Donald Edward Browder bank records on the previous page show both a ficult Batista. In a letter to Lee Rankin of typewritten date of August 21 and a handwrit- but did claim to know Blaney Mack ten note with the same date. the Warren Commission, Hoover had this Johnson, saying he understood Johnson 'Anthony Summers, Conspiracy (Paragon to say of the ongoing (since 1952) investi- was ill and had been hospitalized, was House paperback edition, 1989), p. 439. gation of Dr. Carlos Prio Socarras, a.k.a. "highly imaginative", the usual FBI line 'HSCA, Vol. 5, p. 221. Carlos Prio: 'The neutrality and registra- for an unwelcome witness. 'Report of the Warren Commission on the Assas- tion act investigation related primarily to When the FBI collected these denials, sination of President Kennedy (McGraw-Hill Book the activities of Carlos Prio Socarras, who, they returned to Johnson. Johnson stuck Company, 1964), p. 345. with a number of others including tightly by his story and insisted all the in- "'WC Vol. 26, p. 661, CE 3069 . McKeown, was involved in a conspiracy to "Summers, p. 437 formation he had provided had been true "Summers, p. 441. ship arms, munitions, and other war mate- and accurate. He also said he understood "Summers, p. 440; HSCA Vol. 5, p. 365. rials to Fidel Castro to assist him in his ef- why Lewis, Marrs and Bowes would have "HSCA, Vol. 5, p. 325. forts to overthrow the Batista regime in lied to conceal their knowledge of and/or ''FISCA, Hearings Match 16, 1977, pp.37-41. this investigation.", In the attachment, the involvement in Ruby's activities. And of "WC Vol. 14, pp. 349-350. FBI had McKeown knowing Castro and course, Johnson replied he had never been "For a lengthy treatment of Elrod, see the Carlos Prio Socarras personally. As refer- hospitalized. article by Ray and Mary La Fontaine, The enced earlier, McKeown was the one who Enter Eddie Browder. Eddie Browder tes- Washington Post, 8/7/94, "The Fourth Tramp" revealed Ruby's possible jeep deal and "WC Vol. 26, p. 642-649. tified before the House Select Committee on "WC Vol. 26, p. 634, CE 3063. Ruby's attempt to get friends released from Assassinations in the 70s." He was a 21WC Vol. 26, p. 650, CE 3066. Cuban detention. McKeown also said that former Lockheed test pilot who was serv- "Summers, p. 437. Ruby came to him offering a large sum of ing a 25-year prison sentence for "security "WC Vol. 26, p. 639. money in return for a personal letter of in- violations." He told the committee he "WC vol. 26, p. 639. troduction to Castro.'' worked for the CIA. One time he had leased "WC Vol. 26, p. 640. a B-25 bomber under the name of a non- "Jim Marrs, Crossfire (Carrot & Graf. 1989). Mysterious Mr. Browder existent company and flown it to Haiti a p 284. " Marrs, p. 392. But T-2's account revealed possibly a year after the Kennedy assassination. He "Don Eduardo was a well known alias of E. contact of Ruby's even more interesting cashed a check signed by George Howard Hunt. But James McCord also used the than Prio. T-2 stated that the man he rec- DeMohrenschildt's Haitian business associ- name Don Eduardo Jim Hougan, Secret Agenda ognized as Ruby but knew formerly as ate Clemard Charles, in the amount of I Random House, 1984), p. 80. Blaney Mack Rubenstein was smuggling arms to Cuba $24,000. What's interesting is that the Johnson said Don Edward Browder was some- with one Donald Edward Browder. T-2 HSCA used Browder's testimony in the times called "Don Eduardo " WC Vol 26, p. 642.

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"On balance, itsuary $.,197$

the entire effort would be Prot-visa Robert Blakely lute] Chief Counsel, justified solely by the House Select Ccenmittee on Assassinations strong indication of U.S. House of Representatives House Office Bldg. conspiracy at the Plaza." Annex No Washington D.C. 2051 S

Dear Professor Blakely: [sic)

When I was asked to participate in analysis of the physical evidence regrading the assassination of Sohn Kennedy, 1 wekoined the opportunity to help set the record straight. I did riot anticipate that study of the pho- Canning's tographic record of itself would reveal major discrepancies in the Warren Commission findings Such has turned out to be the case,

I have rust set out to write this note to comment on results, my report dots that. What I do wish to convey is my judgement woof how die pats of the overall investigation which I could observe were conducted. The Letter to compartenenudiathon which you either fostered or permitted to develop in the technical investigations made it nearly impossible 10 do good work in reasonable time and at reasonable cost,

The staff lawyers clearly were working in the tradition of adversaries; this would be acceptable if the adver- Blakey sary were ignorance or deception. The adversaries I perceive were the staff lawyers themselves. Each seemed ID 'protect" his own assigned group at the expense of getting to the heart of the matter by encouraging — Of by Kathleen Cunningham even demanding cooperation with the other participants The most frustrating problem for me was to get quan- titative data — and even consistent descriptions — ham the forensic pathologists.

The "not altogether complimentary Of somewhat less importance in gaining overall aceeptante of what I consider to be a quite impressive im- letter" may prove to outline the reasons provement in undemanding, was the manner in which the results of the investigation were conveyed in hear- that the 115CA failed so miserably in their ings. I don't propose to alter die trial-like atmosphere, but when long-winded engineers and Congressmen are investigation of the John F Kennedy as- allowed to waste literally hours an utter Invia, I do object. sassination. I needn't remind you of the importance of managing time when many expensive people are participating and particularly when millions are watching. To allow weasel witnesses to overrun their planned allotments to Following his shocking revelation that the detriment of the whole planned presartation indicates that either the plan or its execution has been weak.

the photo evidence and the conclusions of Clearly the participation of the Congressmen in subsequent questioning, though necessary. uses time some- the Warren Commission are not mutu- what inefficiently; even here enough experience must have accumulated to anticipate the problem and lead ally supportive, Thomas Canning, author you and Chairman Stokes to deal with it. of the H5CAs trajectory analysis, offers Much of this rather negative trances to the hearings themselves mons from my being strongly persuaded to us a brilliant outline of why the H5CA's rush through a difficult analysis at the last minute, abandon my regular pursuits for two days. try to bail down investigation was doomed to fail. His al- forty-five minutes of testimony to thirty, and then listen and watch while two bows' excellent testimony is allowed to dribble out over most of a day. legations of evidence left compartmental- Permit me to aid my not altogether complimentary letter by saying that it was for the mast part an interesting ized, accusations of staff infighting, and enjoyable experience. On balance, the entire effort would be justified solely by the strong indication of along with his assertion that the medical conspirac-y at the Plaza I pante:Warly enjoyed working with Jane Downey and Mickey Goldsmith_ Their help panel gave him conflicting data, confirm in piercing scene of the partitions and their remarkably quick, intelligent response to my needs was exemplary. what many in our research community They also proved to be good aitice ion helping me make my results clear. have suspected all along. For these rea- Sincerely, sons many have proposed that a special prosecutor someday be appointed to ex- Thomas N. Canning plore the assassination.

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moved by the time the bullet arrived) the FBI Fibbed About target by 4 to 6 inches. (If Oswald were as good a shot as claimed, would he not have aimed ahead of the target, assuming Testing Carcano he didn't know the sight was off?) By 1VL1licent Crenor The sight was well stabilized when re- places the same bullet 3 inches above the ceived in Dallas, as shown by the shots FBI firearms expert Robert Frazier, testi- target at 25 yards, how far above the tar- landing so close together, but it was mis- fying before the Warren Commission, de- get would the bullet strike if the rifle was aligned. Why? Frazier could not answer, scribed the results of tests by FBI zeroed in at 100 yards? He came up with but suggested it had been bumped, as evi- marksmen with Oswald's Mannlicher 14 inches. If the bullet is 4 inches off at 25 denced by a "severe scrape on the scope Camaro at 15, 25 and 100 yards. Their yards, it would be 18 inches off at 100 yards. tube" that occurred at some unknown shots consistently landed close to each (These figures are conservative; even at 15 time. And he said "It may be the that the other, within an area "the size of a dime," yards, when firing for accuracy and not mount has been bent or the crosshair ring but not close to the target, demon- speed, two of the FBI marksmen were off shifted." {wouldn't it be have been clear strating the rifle's precision, but lack whether, if not when, the mount was of accuracy due to the misalignment When John Lattimer bought bent?) Did the FBI or the Commission of the telescopic sight. (Accuracy and four Carcanos—"a favorite inquire if the scrape had been on the precision have separate meanings in gun when found in the Depository? If ballistics.) Their results: among European riflemen"— the scrape was "severe," wouldn't it At 15 yards: and four telescopic sights have been seen in Dallas? If not, the 2.5 to 4 inches too high; identical to Oswald's, he found Commission could have claimed the 1 inch too far to the right gun was damaged in transit, and was At 25 yards: that all four needed shims, and fine at the time of the assassination. 4 to 5 inches too high; hinted that Oswald had used Was this basic, obvious question ever 1 to 2 inches too far to the right one. asked? At 100 yards: Frazier minized the problem, claim- 2.5 to 5 inches too high; ing it wasn't really defective, that by 4 inches.) 2 to 5 inches too far to the right "only the adjusting mechanism does not How did the FBI manage to fire "only" 5 If the sight was 2.5 - 4 inches too high have enough tolerance to bnng the inches too high at 100 yards (assuming crosshair to the point of impact of the bul- at 15 yards, how could it be a mere 2.5 to they were telling the truth)? It is reason- 5 inches too high at 100 yards? let," simple to fix by slipping a "shim" un- able to conclude that, having become fa- der the sight. But, the defect is apparently Deviation is in direct proportion to the miliar with the gun by the time of the distance of the gun from the target. Earlier inherent with that brand, and was there be- last series of tests, they compensated in his testimony, in a very different con- for fore the hypothetical bump. When, for his the misalignment of the telescopic sight experiments, John Lattimer bought four text, Frazier made an offhand remark that — and did not say so. Commissioner illustrates this principle: He said he fired Cair_anos—"a favorite among European Eisenberg appears to have guessed it: riflemen"—and four telescopic sights iden- three shots at 25 yards with "approxi- -Mr. Frazier, when you were running, tical to Oswald's, he found that all four mately a 3-inch spread...the equivalent of a let's say, the last test, could you have 12-inch spread at a hundred yards." Tivelve needed shims, and hinted that Oswald had compensated for this defect?" used one. No shim was ever found on or inches, not 5 inches? "Yes; you could take an aiming point Would bullet drop (effect of gravity) near Oswald's gun. low and to the left and have the shots We may never know the truth about compensate for the rifle's poor vertical strike a predetermined point..." alignment at 100 yards? I got a precise an- that gun. But we do know the FBI told Or, was it his point that Oswald com- what amounts to a lie_ When they made swer from the editor of a leading ballistics pensated for the defect? Eisenberg also ap- publication who, because of the "sensitive" the statement that, at 100 yards, the pears to have known, in advance, what rifle's aim was off by only 5 inches, they subject matter, wishes to remain anony- might solve the problem, as acknowl- knew it would be understood to mean mous. Using Barnes' Ballistics computer edged: program, he determined that, at 120 yards, that the last series of tests was performed "I1)f the elevation crosshair was defec- under the conditions of the first two a 6.5mm, 160-grain bullet, muzzle veloc- tive at the time of the assassination...and ity of 2.200 feet per second, would have tests, that is, without compensating for no compensation was made for this de- the misalignment of the sight. How dropped only 0.7 inches below "flat firing" fect, how would this have interacted with level. (In a different context, Frazier claimed would the public have responded to the the amount of lead which needed to be information that, when firing the last more bullet drop than my expert, 1.2 given to the target?" shot, the bullet would have gone at least inches at 100 yards Not enough to explain Frazier answered, perhaps as predicted, the results obtained.) So much for gravity 14 inches above the point of aim on that no lead would have been necessary: Kennedy's head? The gun seems to have explaining the disproportionately small de- The misaligned scope "accomplished the gree of deviation at 100 yards. been more of a threat to the pigeons lead" for him. Earlier, Frazier had testified above. How would the public have re- I then posed another question for his that Oswald would have had to lead (aim computer: if the telescopic sight of the rifle sponded to the information that the FBI ahead of the target because it would have rigged the last test'

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Page 18 • Notebook Perry Raymond Russo 1941-1995 Rio Conference Just as we went to press, we were told ended up having government tics Claudia Furiati, author of Z12 Rifle: The by New Orleans sources that Perry Russo ag.Walter Sheridan, Hugh Aynesworth, Plot to Kill Kennedy and Castro has gotten had passed away of a reported heart at- and James Phelan (see p. 7, cal. 1). Be- together with the government of Brazil's tack on August 16th. cause he would not turn on Garrison he Ministry of Culture and arranged a three Russo, of course, was the witness at underwent a four year onslaught that al- day conference on the Kennedy assassina- the Shaw trial who stated that Ferrie, tered his life permanently. He later be- tion to be held in Rio de Janeiro on Au- "Leon" Oswald, and a man he later iden- came a taxi driver, working 80 hour gust 29th, 30th, and 31st. lb be tified as Clay Shaw, discussed the assassi- weeks. He would always give researchers co-promoted with the Court of Justice of nation of President Kennedy at Ferrie's access to him and was a font of informa- Rio de Janeiro the conference will be en- apartment in New Orleans in September tion on Ferrie, anti-Castro Cubans, and titled "Seminar .1FIC International Meet- of 1963. Russo surfaced after Ferrie's the New Orleans scene in general. In the ing of J. F. Kennedy Assassination death (Ferric had threatened his life previ- summer of 1994, Perry got researchers Investigators". The invitations were ten- ously) and became a witness for Garrison Jeff Caufield and Romney Stubbs into dered in July from Helena Sevens, Secre- at the preliminary hearing of Clay Shaw Ferrie's apartment and reconstructed the tary of the Ministry of Culture for Rio de in March, 1967. Perry was brutally ma- scene at Ferric's apartment that.he testi- Janeiro. The original invitation list in- ligned by local Shaw allies like Rosemary fied to at the Shaw trial. cluded Jim Lesar, Cyril Wecht, Wayne James, and national media reporters who Smith, Garton Fonzi, Gordon Winslow, John Newman, Bill Triter, Edwin Lopez Soto, and Jim DiEugenio. Jennifer Harbury Coalition Dave Park Books Before the Oklahoma City bombing blew her off the front pages, Jennifer lb those looking to spread their horizons Harbury was making headway in finding out who killed her husband and an the JFK case to include more than assassi- Michael Devine in Guatemala. Now, post-Oklahoma City, few people read about nation research, Dave Park (nicknamed Cap- her. Jennifer, an incredibly courageous woman, went down to Guatemala City in tain Cranky) has just issued his most current July to investigate the case herself. She demanded the exhumation of her late hus- took list on John Kennedy. The list runs band, who was reportedly murdered by a Guatemalan army officer in the employ nearly 50 pages and includes over 200 titles of the CIA. The military has stonewalled on this demand and the CIA has at- and descriptions. lb say that some of these tempted a damage control operation through the media. The special prosecutor on books are rare is an understatement. It is diffi- the case in Guatemala has received threatening phone calls, has been the object of cult to get books late Brad Ayers The War that surveillance, and had a shot fired through thewindow of his office. Neyert4Iss, Kerry Thornley's Oswald, and The following is an excerpt from a letter sent by Jennifer to her friends in July: Herb Philbrick's 1 Led 3 Lives (FBI infiltrator Philbrick was the young Oswald's role The situation in the. City is really grim. Karen Fisher's sister was shot at mode]). Sometimes they are not even avail- (Karen is the daughter-in-law of Carpio Nicolle—the President's cousin, as- able in libraries. But has anyone ever heard sassinated by the army in 1993—she is still pushing that case full blast). A of Steel and the Presidency, or Kennedy and young fiscal (state prosecutor) was just shot to death. A gringo photogra- Big Business? Were you aware there was a pher (Sky Callahan) from Dallas was just beaten twice in one week—the record album by Lawrence Schiller and Ri- second time by men who spoke English and accused him of being a politi- chard Warren Lewis to accompany their cal troublemaker. I'm told he will need testicular surgery in the U.S. book The Scavengers and Critics of the Warren It's a spooky pattern. Karen is in the international spotlight—so her sister Report? Finally, did you know that David was attacked. Mango is in the spotlight-a colleague is dead. I am in the Phillips wrote a foreword for a book called spotlight. Another U.S. citizen is beaten twice for no reason. Was this a The Mystique of Conspiracy published in warning to me? 1978 and that the book's author had help from Paul Hoch? As Chris Sharrett wrote so eloquently in a recent issue of "The Fourth Decade" All this in addition to many of the one of the shortcomings of the Kennedy research community has been the failure standbys like Meagher, Lane and Weisberg to see causes that we should be making coalitions (real and rhetorical) with. This Dave caters to collectors so there is a lot in is one that, to us at CTKA, is clear-cut. The methods of terror installed abroad by the way of offbeat memorabilia but there's the CIA and its allies are alive and kicking today. The question is: If the American rare gold too. The catalog itself makes for a public won't demand that its government come clean on who killed its president, fascinating read. lb get it send ten dollars can Jennifer Harbury force it to prosecute those who killed her husband? to Dave Park Books, 3456 17th St., San Francisco CA 94110. Those interested in more information on this case can call 213-852-9808.

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Wecht Responds to Boswell: 1995 to 1969

July 31, 1995 MEMORANDUM FOR ADMIRAL DAVIS 3 Feb 1909 I. Thornton Boswell. M.D_ Sully Call received from Dr. Roswell (Suburban Hospital, tele: 11134 Stephalee Lane 630-8066) re problem concerning trial going on In New Rockville, Maryland 20852 Orleans by Mr. Garrison re Mr Shaw Dear Dr. Boswell.

A member of the Justice Department has been In contact with Doctor Enclosed is a copy of a memorandum typed by your secretary on February 3. 1969 It was recently obtained from the JFK files by one of the researchers. Boswell and has questions re custody of patient records. SpecthcaLly, Doc Inasmuch as your secretary, Betty, and I have never met, and presumably. she ter Boswell needs to talk with you sometime today (ASAP) re rules and was not a physician, attorney, forensic scientist or active politician, I must infer that her statement that "A forensic pathologist. Dr. Wald (sic), who is not consid- regulations within the Navy Department relative to who has responsibility ered too reputable will testify at the trial" emanated from you Certainly, I have always assumed olumme and full responsibility for actions and statements made by of custody of President Kennedy's records - autopsy report, I-rays and pho- my personal secretary. One need not be a lawyer to appreciate the universal logic of respondent superior and vicarious responsibility . tographs. There LS a question of some material which no one seems to know I would be interested in learning how you had ascertained as of February, 1969. where It In or where It can be obtained (Doctor Boswell suspects it may be that I was not reputrthle, Inasmuch as the memorandum related to the JFK autopsy materials. I assume that this charactoization referred to me in my capacity as a held by Kennedy Family but Is not certain). Doctor Boswell said Justice is • physician and forensic pathologist. not trying to retrieve the material but they need to know what the rules From whom had you received such information, and from whom had you die- iced opinions regarding my competence, integrity. and honesty? and regulations re custody are.A member of that Department will queedion Had you submitted an inquiry to the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. which organization was to elect me as President-Elect later that same month at their Dr. Bossed later today. A forensic pathologist, Dr. Weal, who In not consid- Annual Meeting at the Doke Hotel in Chicago? ered too reputable will testify at the trial. Dr. Boswell needs to discuss this Had you made an inquiry of government and political officials in Allegheny ▪ Country. where I was endorsed by the Democratic Patty later that month for the and the custody matter with you. position of AJIte,heny County Corona, and then nominated in the Primary and u elected to dou job in November. 1969? Very respectfully, Had you made an inquiry or Dr. Thomas Hopei* Chief Medical Examines- Coroner of Los Angeles County, who had officially consulted me in the Ruben F Kennedy and Sharon Tate-LaBiotca murders? Had you submitted inquiries to the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne Uni- BETTY

vastly, where f had been appointed to the faculties of the Untecrsity of Nolan-eh School of Medicine and Duquesne University Schools of Law and Pharmacy? ing this post-mortem egnmination? In what way did you make s r.00rributiiin to law Had you read the traeiript of my ttilimmy before Federal Judge Charles and justice? Or were you, like Adolf Erohnsan and other militarists in the past. simply "following onion"? Halkek, Jr., in Washington, D.C. in August, 1968. regarding the need to examine all the JFK autopsy =tenets an a consultant to Disniet Attorney Jim Lamson in Although more than three decades have passed since your abysmal perfor- the Clay Show trial? (Judge lialleck was apperently sufficierrily impressed and mance. and despite the fact that your defamatory statement about me is co granted the DA's motion immediately from the botch. Of course, as expected the longer legally actionable, f would very much welcome the opportunity to de- govern/nail roomeys prorated vehemently and appealed his decision. I had to wait bate the JFK assassination with you anywhere at any time feel confident that another four years before I had the opporomity to review these matenals at the Na- we could charge a substantial amount for audience tickets, and all the money tional Archive and see the results of your skilled handiwork.) could be donated to a charity of your choice_ Why don't you come out of your By what God-given right did you have to malign and defame me in this fashion self-imposed obscurity and quasi-seclusion and contend with the real world? wilco you obviously knew nothing whatsoever about me" (Oremise, it is censinly You and your colleagues created ulna ineludible men with me of the most possible that somebody had made negative comments about me. If so, you Mould tragically botched medicable& autopsies I have ever encountered. Do you not have had the decency to have earned those individuals and discussed with some feel that you owe enough to yourself, your family, yew profession, and your speoficity.in your memorandum what the basis was for suds negative comments) country to mandate participation in a public Imam penairting to the JFK assas- It is a miner of record that the FBI and other governmental agencies embarked sination? upon a special campaign to undermine, ridicule, embarrass, defame, and vilify any- Or do you believe that you fulfilled all your moral and ethical obligations body who had the audacity to challenge the conclusions of the Warren Commission by simply meeting privately with your old military pathologist comrade-in- Report. Their mono were unetly despicable and morally reprehensible- Evidently, arms- 0r. George Lundberg, and enjoying the latent:cool luxury of telling the as a career military person, you felt that you had the same right to follow a similar same old story from your perspective without being challenged or criticized by Wk. end you believed that you elan enjoyed legal immunity in making defamatory anyone? You have been whitewashed in JAMA, and you hese managed to moments. escape grueling interrogation by a skilled adoersarial attorney in an open court Without getting into a discussion or review of the JFK assassination and of law. Such immunity and protection are usually available only to absolute whether the WCR's conclusions visa-vis Oswald are carnet, one fact is imequivo• monarchs and governmental dictators, However. then are other esseasments in life that am meaningful. I would be absolutely mortified and horribly humili- r. catty clear and universally acceptable among all forensic pathologists, including the other eight members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations Forensic ated if 85 to 90% of my countrymen consistently and repeatedly rejected my Pathology Panel who disagreed with me on a few key points, namely, that you and professional conclusion in the moat significant endeavor 1 had ever engaged in Dr. Humes had no business whatsoever in performing the autopsy on President during my lifetime. That is some legacy to leave your children and grand- Kennedy. Neither of you had ever done one official medical-legal autopsy, nor had children_ you over spent one day m a forensic pathology training program or seminar. Your Very truly yours incompetence and inexperience net into motion a horrible chain of events Mat be continued for 32 years, and which has cast this country and thousands of people Cyni Ji. Wean, MD, JD, immeasurable amounts of nme, effort, money, and emotional anguish. cc lames Horner Tell me. Dr. Boswell. do you think you were a "reputable" person in undenak- Pierre Flock, M.D. George D. Lundberg, M D.

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